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Who will win this Sunday’s F1 race?

Posted by Top Gear Australia at 6:22 pm on Friday May 11, 2012

Formula One begins its European tour in Barcelona this weekend – and everyone is whinging about the tyres. Barcelona this weekend – and then Monaco – is where F1 really gets going. Sure Oz and Malaysia and China and that funny old weekend in Bahrain made for some compelling viewing, but it’s not proper F1 [...]

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Defensive driving courses: good or bad?

Posted by Top Gear Australia at 2:24 pm on Friday February 17, 2012

Racing legend Mark Skaife has slammed claims that defensive driving courses don’t work – and in fact make young drivers more reckless. In a report in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, leading road safety researcher Ian Faulks said there was no evidence to prove that driver training courses help young motorists to become safer drivers. ”Teaching [...]

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Road Battle: Australia v New Zealand

Posted by Top Gear Australia at 3:32 pm on Tuesday February 14, 2012

This article is brought to you by Air New Zealand. Ask anyone who’s seen The Castle, drunk a can – or 24 – of Reschs or ever swerved to dodge a kangaroo and they’ll tell you, without question, that Australia is home to the greatest driving roads to be found in our little corner of [...]

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World’s best driving roads?

Posted by Top Gear Australia at 4:37 pm on Monday February 6, 2012

Sponsored by Air New Zealand Here’s a simple equation you can use when searching for amazing driving roads: mountains = goodness. While apple-botherer Isaac Newton might have worked out that what goes up must come down, we’ve since perfected his discovery. See, we’ve discovered that what goes up the side of a mountain will invariably [...]

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F1 2011: Vettel could end it this weekend

Posted by Top Gear Australia at 10:05 am on Saturday September 24, 2011

The brink of making history is a pretty daunting place to be stood, so spare a thought for Sebastian Vettel this weekend. The current world champion is the only man to finish every race so far this season, and all but one of them on the podium. He’s currently running at a staggering 77% pole [...]

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Mark Webber, Singapore 2010

Posted by Top Gear Australia at 4:46 pm on Tuesday September 20, 2011
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Lowndes and Skaife win at Phillip Island

Posted by Top Gear Australia at 11:12 am on Monday September 19, 2011
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Craig Lowndes and Mark Skaife lived up to pre-race hype by winning the traditional Bathurst warm-up, the Phillip Island 500 last weekend.

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Posted by Top Gear Australia at 5:27 pm on Monday September 12, 2011

Once again, Sebastian Vettel made it look easy as he won this afternoon’s Italian Grand Prix – his second victory at Monza and his eighth of the 2011 season. Meanwhile,  Our Mark took a little trip back to the bad old DNF days…

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